Daryl Gates Quotes

I believe in the right to defend yourself.

This isn't about deer hunting. The Second Amendment is about our right to keep and bear arms to defend ourselves.

The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

The great object is that every man be armed.

The need for self-defense naturally exists outside and inside the home, I would hold the 2nd Amendment applies outside the home.

Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.

That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

Every People should have, within themselves, all the Means of Self Defense.

An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.

The Union agrees with the Supreme Court's long standing interpretation of the 2nd Amendment that the individual's right to keep and bear arms applies only to the preservation or efficiency of a "well-regulated militia." Except for lawful police and military purposes, the possession of weapons by individuals is not constitutionally protected.

If there is no absolute right to freedom of speech, why must there be an absolute right to the freedom to bear arms.

Free men and women have the right to own a gun to protect their home.

You have a right to possess in your home and in your business a rifle, a pistol, and King George can't take it away from you, or Uncle Sam either.

Gun ownership. The Bill of Rights should be written according to what's appropriate now, not two centuries ago.

Libertarians and most conservatives boldly and nobly take a stand for our right to keep and bear arms. Not so we can go duck hunting, but so we can defend ourselves and our families from invasion. And so we can, if necessary, defend our liberty from the possibility of a tyrannical state.

An armed person is a citizen. An unarmed person is a subject. Criminals love gun control – it makes their jobs safer. The American Revolution would never have happened with "gun control.

… people who are armed make comparatively unattractive victims. A criminal might not know if any one civilian is armed, but if it becomes known that a large number of civilians do carry weapons, criminals will become warier.

Whereas civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.

The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This is not for someone who's in the military. This not for law enforcement. This is for us. And in fact when you read that Constitution and the founding fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny. This [gun control] is for us when our government becomes tyrannical...

Liberty and an unarmed people stand in direct contradiction.

Our laws must protect victims.

Obama and his me-too Senate majority led by Nevada's Harry Reid and New York's Chuck Schumer - given the chance - would indeed wipe out our tradition of the right to keep and bear arms, and with it our right to self-protection in a dangerous world.

We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.